Welcome to the official OpenSocial developer forum!

OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for building social applications that run across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network's friends and update feeds. This forum is the place for developers to post questions, share ideas, and post example projects for feedback. 

There are a lot of places to find more information about OpenSocial:

• code.google.com
• Getting Started Guide (first steps, and a summary of container status)
• OpenSocial Tutorial (develop your first OpenSocial gadget)
• OpenSocial Specification (a definition of the OpenSocial API and some useful background info)
• Developer's Guide for OpenSocial and Orkut (code samples and explanations to help you write applications)
• JavaScript API Reference for OpenSocial and Gadgets (documentation for all the JavaScript methods you can use)
• Submit your app for the Orkut directory 
•  Blogs
• OpenSocial blog
• Orkut Developer Blog (new!)
•  Container-specific Developer Forums
• OpenSocial on Orkut 
• OpenSocial on Ning
• OpenSocial on Hi5
• OpenSocial on Plaxo
•  OpenSocial Resources Open Source Project
• Wiki (code snippets, sample gadgets, and other resources)
  
• Issue Tracker (report bugs, request features, and "star" the issues that are important to you!)
  
•  IRC (irc://irc.freenode.net/opensocial)

If you're looking for friends to help test your app, check out this thread.

We have many talented and helpful developers in our group, and we've identified those who have historically demonstrated technical expertise and made helpful community contributions.  These posters can be identified by the (Guru) tag that appears after their names, and by their appearance in the list below.

• Gaurav Kushwaha
• Nitin Rajput 
• Srimoyee (Site)
• Lalit Sarna (App)
• Aaron Batalion (Site)
• Eddie Frederick (Site)
• Alex Epshteyn (Site)
• Edward (Site)
• Keaka Jackson (Site)
  
• Vlad Katz (Site)
• Dinesh Subramanian (App)
• Jerome Mouton (Site)
• Nat Brown (Site)
• Sean Bladsvedt (Profile)
  
• Jia Shen (Site)
  
• Raymond Chan (Site)